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MORGAN STANLEY

bd_992601bdd37ca5aa · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Medium

Discovered

May 1, 2021

Filed

Jul 7, 2021

To disclose

10 weeks

Affected

Not disclosed

Linked

8 filings

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for MORGAN STANLEY15 incidents on file

Morgan Stanley, via its third-party administrator for Telephone and Data Systems (TDS), notified New Hampshire authorities of a data security incident involving a vendor. The vendor suffered a breach in January 2021, where an unauthorized individual obtained encrypted files and the decryption key. Data exposed included names, addresses, DOBs, and SSNs. Morgan Stanley discovered the impact in May 2021. TDS mailed notifications on July 2, 2021, offering 24 months of credit monitoring via Experian.

Incident timeline

undetected · 120 days
discovery → filing · 10 weeks / 67 days

Jan 1, 2021

Begins

May 1, 2021

Discovered

Jul 7, 2021

Filed

vs. sector median

+1 wks slower

This filing is one of 8 about the same incident.View merged incident

Linked disclosures

Why this link?

Regulatory filings (7) · sorted by filing gap

Show 3 more filingsup to 5d gap

Filing propagation · 8 filings · 7 states

View merged incident ↗
California State AGJul 2 · first
Montana State AGJul 2 · first
Washington State AGJul 2 · first
Indiana State AGJul 2 · first
Oregon State AGJul 2 · first
New Hampshire State AG+5d · this page

Pattern: first filing Jul 2 (CA), last Jul 7 (NH) — a 5-day rolling notification. Rolling spreads often mean counsel is filing as thresholds trip per state. Why this link?

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.